This 1960s psychological thriller is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece made for the ages. With a very low budget of $806,947 this movie came close to never being made. Alfred Hitchcock the director of this movie was always, with every film, ahead  of his time.

Psycho was a solo project funded by Hitchcock himself in hopes to create another hit and refresh the watered down horror genre.

The movie opens with lead actress Vera Miles giving a fantastic performance as Marion Crane, a troubled single woman living in Chicago, Ill. She is unsatisfied with her current life and embezzles $40,000 from her employer to begin a new life for herself.

As she’s on the run she begins to feel as if she was being followed and drifts off the main roads to check into the Bates Motel.

Lead actor Anthony Perkins gives a perfect performance playing the innocent but disturbing Norman Bates. As the movie progresses Bates is tormented by his mother after he accompanies Marion to dinner who is completely unaware of her situation. The movie moves on and the unspeakable happens. The events that conspire give “Psycho” its name. It is undoubtedly  one of the greatest movies in cinematic history.